The Mindsensors camera is really nice, and it will work with Robot C. I tested the Beta version and it is a very powerful sensor. The NXTcamView software is a must download to use with the camera. With it you can take pictures of objects and then select the colors to track from the picture and save them on the camera for later use. The camera can save 8 different object colors.

I haven't tried the newer upgraded camera thats now for sale, but hopefully this weekend I will get it and play with it. When I get some code written ill make sure I post it for everyone to use B-)

Awesome, I'm looking forward to hearing about your experiences. I checked out the NXTCamView software and it seems like an awesome tool. Being able to get a range of colour within a certain colour band should be awesome.

Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:40 pm

wyeth

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I've been using the NXTCam for a week or so now. It does pretty well what it says on the box but with a few caveats. The color discrimination performance is poor. The camera is very sensitive to red, and barely sensitive to blue. I've tried it in a few different lighting conditions. It is better under flourescent light, but still not good. I've been using a black ball against a pale background which works well. Also the blobs can report erroneous boundaries near the edges of the image. The documentation is poor (and wrong in places) and you need to be prepared to work things out for yourself. But if you're using Robot C, your probably used to this ...

Still my kids were very impressed to watch the robot chase the ball across the carpet! Speed of response is certainly not an issue. All in all, good value at the price, but I hope they straighten out the bugs and documentation soon.

I've written my own library which sets up the camera and grabs the blobs into an array. As other posts have noted, you will need to use nxtcamview to set up the color spaces (although you could probably write a Robot C program to do it as well). I also have some demos that display the blobs as text, display the blobs graphically and chase a blob around. I'll post these on my website soon (stuck behind a foreign firewall right now) and send a post to the forum with the URL when done.

No, you cant take pictures and send them over bluetooth or have the NXT save them. However, if the camera is connected to your computer by the mini usb cable and you use the NXTCamView, you can take pictures and save them.

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